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Handling Multi-Tenancy with API Keys in Collections

TLDR CaptainCodeman inquired about using API keys for multi-tenancy in collections. Jason suggested generating unique document IDs by prefixing them with the tenantId.

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Aug 29, 2021 (25 months ago)

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CaptainCodeman

07:44 PM

Q: about the API keys feature and using it for multi-tenancy … I take it each tenant still needs to have their own separate collection, otherwise document IDs could conflict?

Aug 30, 2021 (25 months ago)

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Jason

12:35 AM

CaptainCodeman Not necessarily, you can put all tenants documents in a single collection... Unless document IDs between tenants collide on your end?

CaptainCodeman

01:14 AM

there's no guarantee they won't, so I'll create separate collections. I wondered if it worked like AppEngine Datastore where each namespace could have their own unique data, even for the same IDs

Jason

01:15 AM

You could generate document IDs using a prefix on your side. So something like tenantId-documentId

CaptainCodeman

02:41 AM

that would work too, and I guess give the option of querying one or all

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